Here comes Google Voice — We've just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.

Welcome to Your New Home Page — Last week, we shared our philosophy behind the new updates and changes on Facebook to give you a better understanding of why we make certain product decisions. We explained how we've been mapping out the Social Graph, or the network of connections that exist in the world …

Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances — Earlier in my career, I thought that innovation was solely about technology. If you wanted to address a new market or to increase sales, writing more code was always a good option. Having gained some wisdom and experience over the years …

Google Reader is your new watercooler — One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we've been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with …

Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google — Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the foundation behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google — From the head offices for Mozilla in Mountain View, Calif., executives can see Google (GOOG) in several directions.

My Two Cents on Charging for Content — Time, the New York Times and others with their back against the economic wall are now reconsidering that whole free thing. — Ann Moore, the CEO of Time Inc, told a British newspaper: … And so on... My take: I actually don't think it matters …

Fusion-io touts ‘fastest’ solid-state drive — Fusion-io also claims Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. — Targeted primarily at business applications, such as database servers, capacities range from 160 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes. And by the second half of this year, this will increase to 1.28 terabytes.

The Broadband Gap: Why Do They Have More Fiber? — This is the third in a series looking at the lessons for the United States from broadband deployment in other countries. Read the first and second posts. — In the paradises of broadband — Japan, South Korea and Sweden …

New Image Search Results for Android and iPhone — Today we launched a new Image Search results page for Android, iPhone, and iPod touch in the US, the UK, and Japan. — With the new Image Search results, you can easily scan up to 20 images on a single results page and get the details for images that interest you.

Watch live NCAA basketball on an iPhone — Live sports are coming to the iPhone. — MobiTV, which offers prime-time TV programming for cellphones, has cut a deal with CBS Sports to show 63 NCAA basketball games in an iPhone/iTouch app for $4.99. The games begin next week, but the App goes on sale Thursday.

The Digital Divisions Are Dead At Big Media — Big Media's love affair with the Internet ebbs and flows with the markets. When they see money pouring into Web startups, they feel threatened and rush to do the same. They ramp up their digital divisions, which usually are no more than venture arms, and hope to strike it rich.

G1 “cupcake” update coming April … T-Mobile has confirmed that it will be bringing the “cupcake” software update to the G1 mobile phone in April. — The news will mean users of the Android handset will get an onscreen keyboard as well as a host of other features to improve the performance of the handset launched last November.

Sony: The PS3 Will Always Have Blu-ray — Late last month Janco Partners' Mike Hickey said that: — “Recent channel checks indicate increased speculation for a PS3 price cut announcement from Sony in the next couple of days.” (We're still waiting.) — Sony was planning a PS3 without a Blu-ray drive.

Tax-Prep Software Doesn't Add Up — I knew I was doomed about five minutes into this year's tax-prep ordeal. Two different programs — having been fed nothing more than basic personal info and the contents of a pair of W-2s — did not agree on the total tax bill for my wife and me.

Meltdown 101: Can tech industry save the economy? — SEATTLE (AP) — Technology helped fuel the economic boom of the 1990s. Then the dot-com bust caught some of the blame for the recession of the early 2000s. If technology is so tied to the national economy, and the current recession started …